[125.] Here again singing is made the evidence that these so-called animals are exercising their powers, but these powers are the life-giving activities of nature.
[126.] This injunction is still observed among the medicine priests of the Iroquoian peoples.
[127.] This is the name of the Evil Trickster, whose delight is to abuse and to deceive innocent people. Compare note [94].
[128.] The Yellow Hammer or Yaril.
[129.] This statement of the leaving of a trail in the air by arrows and by persons who are aided by such arrows probably refers to the sun’s rays coming from behind broken clouds in the morning or evening. [[797]]
[130.] See preceding note.
[131.] This indicates belief in transmission of thought.
[132.] Cannibalism taken for granted.
[133.] In this sentence there appears one of the Wind Goddesses.
[134.] In many stories this use of boiling oil to destroy monsters appears; hot oil or grease was probably the hottest common thing known.